W3C Validation - how important is it?

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Personally, your end users probably won't care, so if it looks fine everywhere, it's probably not that big of an issue.  Although it may work fine on current browsers, it may not for future browsers, though in most cases, it shouldn't break on future browsers.
I'd aim for it, but this is kinda more like a nicety.


Try fixing your page up bit by bit.  Adding alt tags to images and self closing tags _shouldn't_ change the page layout on browsers, so do that one first.  Then go about fixing your other issues, and this will also help you track down what part is exactly causing things to break (and you can seek advice on that).